Word: quislingism
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It was Kirsten Flagstad's first appearance in opera since the war and she was nervous. She had been widely attacked because her husband (who died last June) had been arrested as a quisling; and she had been criticized because she had gone home to him (from the U.S...
"Here is the answer: under the impact of the most sanguinary and divisive conflict in history, the World Christian Movement not only stood, strained but unshattered; it has gone forward-slowly, painfully, but steadily, surely . . . and in its every aspect. All over the world, the Christian Church has been discovered...
The Dutch were reluctant to admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a...
Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason.
For such a one, life was not easy. Leaders of Cochin China's neighbor, obstreperous, independent Viet Nam (new state formed of Annam and Tonkin), urged Thinh's countrymen to throw off Western control, called Thinh a quisling and threatened him with torture. Gentle Dr. Thinh was revolted...